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Common Ground Courses
*English 40. Arrivals
*English 43. Arrivals: from Beowulf to Milton - (New Course)
*English 52. Poets: Personal and Impersonal Lyric: Shakespeare, Herbert, Blake, Keats - (New Course)
*English 61. Diffusions: Not on Native Grounds
*English 62. Diffusions: Castaways and Renegades
Undergraduate 90-level Seminars
*English 90el. English Literature in the 16th Century: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90eo. Emancipation I: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90hj. Henry James: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90ht. How to Read a Book: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90k. Rudyard Kipling: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90kb. Poems of Seamus Heaney and Thomas Hardy: Seminar
*English 90lv. Consciousness in Fiction: Seminar
*English 90ow. Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity: Seminar
*English 90th. The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90w. Wordsworth: Seminar - (New Course)
*English 90wc. Waste: Contemporary Novels of Abjection - (New Course)
*English 90xa. Contemporary Novel and the Art of the Book Review: Seminar
Lectures with Sections
English 102g. Introduction to Old English: Biblical Literature - (New Course)
English 111. Epic - (New Course)
English 157. The Classic Phase of the Novel
English 166. American Modernism - (New Course)
English 181a. Asian American Literature
English 182. Science Fiction
English 194. Literary Criticism: Major Approaches - (New Course)
Undergraduate Tutorial Options
*English 91r. Supervised Reading and Research (available to all concentrators)
*English 98r. Tutorial—Junior Year (for honors concentrators)
*English 99r. Tutorial—Senior Year (for honors concentrators)
General Education Courses
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 55. Shakespeare, The Early Plays - (New Course) Note: This course, when taken for letter grade, meets the Department of English Shakespeare requirement.
Freshman Seminars Taught by English Faculty
*Freshman Seminar 33x. Complexity in Works of Art: Ulysses and Hamlet
*Freshman Seminar 34s. The Art of Noticing - (New Course)
Cross-Listed Courses Taught by English Faculty
African and African American Studies 133. Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison
*History and Literature 90at. The Postwar American Road Narrative - (New Course)
*Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1263. Sexuality and Intimacy in British Literature, 1680-1815 - (New Course)
Courses that fulfill the Shakespeare Requirement
Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 55. Shakespeare, The Early Plays - (New Course)
Graduate Courses
*English 228. Milton: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 233. Trans-Reformation English Writing: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 249. The Poetry and Prose of Robert Lowell: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 259. Methods in Book History: Graduate Seminar
*English 261. Joyce/Beckett: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 281. The Novel in History: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 282. American Poetry and Literary History: Graduate Seminar - (New Course)
*English 285e. The New Economic Criticism: Graduate Seminar
